if there is an ordinance in my neighborhood i have no clue....i live in like the most packed area of the suburbs....my backyard is only like 20 by 30 or less...so i shoot all the time in my backyard and no reports yet....but me any my friends throw paintballs all over the signs in my neighbor hood any my nieghbor found one and was all pissed and then he srated smiling and told me bout stories of him in college wit classic pumps.....and tehn if anyone shoots up a house IM the one who gets balmed by all the neighbors cuz im the only one who admits to having a paintball gun

Section 9.41.300(2) provides that cities, towns, counties and other municipalities may enact ordinances: a) restricting the discharge of firearms in any portion of their respective jurisdiction where there is a reasonable likelihood that humans, domestic animals, or property will be jeopardized; and b) restricting the possession of firearms in any stadium or convention center, operated by a city, town, county, or other municipality, except that such restriction shall not apply to any pistol in the possession of a person licensed to do so under state law or exempt from the licensing requirement, or any showing, demonstration, or lecture involving the exhibition of firearms.

Definition of Firearm:
A gun, pistol, or any weapon from which a shot is discharged by the force of an explosive substance, as gunpowder.

Check your area...it only takes a few minutes and could save you hours in jail...

ok, so I have a sort of cop story.
I live in San Diego, and we go to play at a field in Tijuana, Mexico. SO one day my friends and I all load into my truck and we head down there. Just to let you know, guns and ammo a very illegal down there. Since there is a field it is somewhat clear that markers aren't considered guns. So as we go through the border, we get sent to their vehicle insection point. The cop looks in and sees four guys in cammies and tactical style gear, looks a little anxious, and calls another cop over (I assume as backup). Then he moves to the back where our gear is. Top of the stack, my friend's brand new A5 w/flatline. He comes back to the front with his holster open and hand on his gun demanding to know what is going on....only problem is, in spanish. I know a fair amount of it, but I have no clue on how to translate "paintball". He's wigged out, I'm starting to wig out...Luckily, it all gets sorted out after I have S*** enough egg rolls. The rest of the day went well though

well this is my story....my friend live right across a police station near me...so we are playing at his field and the cops dont care so whatever...then we go to another field about 1/4 of amile away, and theres like 5 cops driving by and they dont care at all we have all of our gear out and they just slowed down looked and kept driving....not the greatest story but i was nervous that they would stop and try confiscating our stuff....wouldnt like that oh no i wouldnt

These stories do not have a lot to do with paintball (well, nothing at all), but since everyone is posting cop stories, I might as well post a few too. It all started when I read about "Potato Cannons, Spud Guns, Spudzookas, etc." on the internet. About a month later, I decided to build one. I go to my local Lowes, buy the supplies, go home and make it. Well the next day I am shooting it in my backyard. At the time, I thought it was a good idea, even though it was a horrible idea. Now, these guns are loud. They sound like cannons going off and have recoil like one too. Well, I was shooting targets like a piece of wood, my fence, a shovel, the air (baddddd idea). I tried to set up a shovel about 30 feet away as a target. I did my best to aim and fired, but I missed. Instead, the potato knock a hole straight through my fence and kept rolling. Now, my neighboors must of heard it, went outside, and saw me knocking holes through my fence, so like any pissy neighboor, they call the cops. After about 30 minutes, a cop comes to my door with a giant book about fire arm rules. He tells me it is illegal and is considered a "zip gun". I could get like 10 years in jail and a $5,000 fine if I get caught again (he let me off the hook because I did not know they were illegal... or did I....). So that ended the potato gun, sadly. Now my second story is my fault for being a idiot. Everyone knows what a cap gun is, right? Well anyways, I took one, spray painted it black and took it to SCHOOL. Now I do not know what I was thinking about bringing something that looked like a gun to school. Well, as I was walking home that day, I decided to take it out and just shoot caps to pass the time. After about 10 minutes of shooting, the school bus passes me on its regular route to drop off the kids. As it goes by, I hear some kid go "that guy has a gun!". At that point I just put the gun away and tried to act casual. The bus suddenly stopped about 30 feet away, then started to drive again. I was almost to my house when the bus driver pulled up to me, opened the doors and asked me if I had a gun. Well, any sensible person would say no, real gun or not. She asked me if I went to the school down the road, so I say yeah. She then asks me if I brought it to school and I say yes. She knows she can't do anything so she just says that I was lucky I did not get caught. Well, that day was weird day, but kind of funny when I think about it.

So every Friday we used to get pizza from this little company in town. Well, this guy ALWAYS delivered to us, and actually stopped by a few times to play out-law-ball with a few friends and me. He wasnt very good, but he thought he was the "shiz", so one day, a neighbor across the street sees him pulling out his highly modded 98c, which basically looks like a carbine. She calls the police and they come to our house, but only find my mom, sister, dad, and a few ladies she cuts hair for. After searching the house, he asks," Where is this 'man with a gun'?" After having a good laugh, and a few slices of pizza, the cop realizes that it was a paintball gun, and that we were playing out-law-ball. He tells my parents that this game is illegal, and is strictly enforced in our neighborhood. So my parents tell him where we were, and that we had no-clue that it was illegal in our county. The cop drives out behind the creek, but gets stuck in a mud-hole. Well, the pizza delivery guy sees him coming out through this huge clearing behind the creek, in between some private property, and state land. We all spread out around the clearing, and ration out the little bit of paint we all had. Then, out of nowhere, the cop pulls his sig and starts pointing it into the woods. Most of us start bursting out laughing, and he seems pretty cool with the idea of just a bunch of kids playing paintball. So after shootin my Prostock, my friends Karni, adn one more gun...i think it was the pizza guys 98c, he decides hes done for the day and goes back to his cruiser. When he gets back to his cruiser he somehow gets out of the mud hole and pulls up past us, then stops and asks if we need a ride back home. All-in-all, he seemed cool with us playing, but was scared ****less when he heard us moving around the sides of the clearing, like we would light his *** up, er somthing like that. Now he plays with us almost every Friday after getting off duty, and it is pretty obvious to the whole neighborhood that a cop is breaking the law. All he says is, if he gets in trouble, it all my neighbors fault for calling him the first time.

My father (who is a cop) told me that he did a drive buy on his cop buddys with an airsoft gun (He was in his patrol car and in uniform so they didint open fire at him) It was one of those 120$ electric ones, They all jumped behind there patrol cars and took cover. I wish I was there

i know im a little late on this but that was just to friggin good! You see i dont have that problem when im shooting at my fence. i live in a big naybhood and my karnis sounds like a bb gun almost. its quiet but good story man, good choice to sticky

Originally posted by Aguy43 My father (who is a cop) told me that he did a drive buy on his cop buddys with an airsoft gun (He was in his patrol car and in uniform so they didint open fire at him) It was one of those 120$ electric ones, They all jumped behind there patrol cars and took cover. I wish I was there

LOL. My dad is S.W.A.T, he took 3 guys in the Ford Expedition and they paintballed the rookie!

My friend lives in the city limits where paintballing is illegal. Well, he invites me to spend the night and play paintball on this property that is waiting for houses to be built. His father is a cop and he was pretty cool about it. He woke up the next morning hearing my friend and I play again and he comes outside. We walk over to him and my friend hands him my brother's M98 that he let my friend borrow. His father shot it a few times and was pretty impressed.

I have a really sad story about cops and paintball. My friends Matt and Mike live in a town called Valley Springs. This town is the definition of ghetto. One gas staion/mini mart/ casio/ arcade/ bar (not kidding its called the raceway and it has been robbed 46 times to date). The entire town has 1 cop so you can do preatty much anything in this town so everything is really run down and criminals are everywhere, there fore the cop is a real bad *** when he's not drunk that is. Anyway we were in Mike's back yard picking off a squirell with his Diablo Mongoose when a cop car come screaming up. We hide and watch what he's doing. Turns out he was coming to see a report about a disturbance of the peace about 2 houses down from Mike's place. The guy goes out back because a dog was supposedly lose and attacking people. (yea it was but it was a big dog and was cool, I ride him one time for about 100yards an im 135lbs 5'9 thats how big he was) anyway the dog runs at the cop kinda growling. This apparantly spooked the cop so he thought it was justified to use lethal force. He shot the dog TWICE IN THE HEAD WITH A FRICKEN .45 MAGNUM! He just picks up its carcas and carries it the owner's house doesn't appoligies and gets in his squad car and drives off like the ******* dog killer he is.